Tax Aware
Multi-Period After-Tax Reporting: A Practical Solution
March 29, 2018
We propose an after-tax performance report aimed at enhancing wealth preservation and accumulation for taxable investors.
Fixed Income
(Il)liquidity premium in credit markets: A myth?
March 8, 2018
Do investors demand a risk premium for holding less liquid corporate bonds? We investigate the evidence.
Factor/Style Investing
Implementing Momentum: What Have We Learned?
December 26, 2017
We use seven years of live data to evaluate the implementability of momentum investing.
Factor/Style Investing
Deep Value
December 4, 2017
We examine the efficacy of a hypothetical deep value strategy—where the valuation spread between cheap and expensive securities is wide relative to its history—across global asset classes and also provide new evidence on competing theories for the value premium.
Portfolio Construction
Portfolio Construction Matters: A Simple Example Using Value and Momentum Themes
November 1, 2017
We compare two portfolio construction approaches, “mix” and “integrate,” and examine some examples to demonstrate how their differences may have important implications for practice.
Derivatives
Which Index Options Should You Sell?
July 7, 2017
We study return and risk properties of equity-hedged options across the S&P 500 option surface. We evaluate returns by estimating alpha to the S&P 500 and quantify risk using return volatility, losses under stress tests, and conditional value at risk.
Derivatives
Covering the World: Global Evidence on Covered Calls
July 7, 2017
Covered call strategies may be decomposed, using a risk and performance attribution methodology, into three components: equity exposure, short volatility exposure, and equity timing. This paper applies that attribution methodology to covered calls on 11 global indexes.
Factor/Style Investing
Betting Against Correlation: Testing Theories of the Low-Risk Effect
February 15, 2017
What drives the low-risk effect? We test whether it's driven by leverage constraints (and thus risk should be measured using beta) or behavioral effects (and thus risk should be measured by idiosyncratic risk).
Alternative Investing
Commodities for the Long Run
October 20, 2016
This paper analyzes a novel data set of commodity futures prices between 1877-2015, allowing us to show that returns do vary significantly across business cycles but can add value to a diversified portfolio from an asset allocation perspective.
Fixed Income
The Complexity of Liquidity: The Extraordinary Case of Sovereign Bonds
August 1, 2016
We analyze the cross-section of developed countries’ bond spreads.We show that under certain conditions, especially credit deterioration and flight to quality, new issue, and more liquid, bond spreads tighten and become cheaper, not more expensive, relative to their less liquid counterparts.